Voter ID seems eerily familiar

Is the small government crowd producing suppressive Dixiecrat-clad states, replete with pre-1965 disenfranchisement powers? Oddly, with no complaints about its size, unlike the Affordable Care Act, few have probably read Mississippi's Photo ID (voter disintegration) law.

The law says that the "Secretary of State (who didn't bother to get a baseline disparate impact study before supporting the measure) shall negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding which shall be entered into by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (recently in the throes of race-related hiring and promotion difficulties) and the registrar of each county for the purpose of providing a Mississippi Voter Identification Card."

The law also says that the "Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, shall adopt rules and regulations for the administration of this section."

Who will inspect these possibly Gestapo-enacting rules? It is becoming all too clear that the Hospitality State has granted new Fuhreresque powers to the secretary of state and the MDPS.

With unchecked power like this, who needs a Sovereignty Commission in Mississippi where Faulkner whispers, "The past is never dead," and Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, in criticizing Department of Justice officials, says just look away from Mississippi's prologue.

Victor Cavett

Jackson

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Voter ID seems eerily familiar

Is the small government crowd producing suppressive Dixiecrat-clad states, replete with pre-1965 disenfranchisement powers? Oddly, with no complaints about its size, unlike the Affordable Care Act,